Read XML in JSP

Refer to this tutorial (http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/).

Just as a good practice, you should not have code to read XML directly in the JSP. A JSP is supposed to provide the view/display part of the application and it should not be mixed with any processing logic as far as possible.

If you want to read XML, you should code a separate class for that purpose and call the methods through your JSP. That would make your JSP readable and it would be easier for you or anyone to modify it in future. In short, it would make the code maintainable.